This paper presents a survey of Indian third-party logistics (3PL) providers and compares the state of the industry with that in 2004 based on an earlier survey. The 3PL industries of India and North America are also compared. The survey finds that the Indian 3PL industry lags behind North America in terms of global reach and breadth of service. Indian 3PL providers also underperform in key var...

This paper suggests a component-based software development framework for 3rd party logistics (3PL) business. This framework integrates two engineering methodologies in order to identify the most reusable software components that can be used in several types of 3PL business models. UML (Unified Modeling Language) is used to design lower-level software components and DEMO (Design and Engineering ...

• The field of the study is optimization supply chain organization. We consider a cooperation model between manufacturer and 3PL provider. want to minimize inventory costs, transportation costs tardiness penalty costs. propose MILP models three metaheuristic resolution methods compare them. This paper presents two-stage problem at operational level involving third-party logistics provider (3PL ...

Chapter 1: China logistics market overview: 1.1 China Economy overview 1.2 A huge logistics market 1.3 China logistics market features 1.4 Regulatory constraints Chapter 2: Logistics infrastructure overview and analysis: 2.1 The development of China Internet network and telephone system 2.2 Transportation analysis: Highway and trucking service 2.3 Transportation analysis: Railroad industry 2.4 ...

The problem of selecting 3PL (Third Party Logistics) suppliers is a major issue in the management supply chain and improvement production manufacturing company. A supplier can be defined as company that provides contract logistics services to manufacturer, or main user product service. It called third party because provider does not own products but participates between manufacturer given produ...

This research study presents a comprehensive model for selection of decisive criteria to develop and integrate a fourth-party logistics concept in humanitarian logistics sector. The model is based on applying an analytic network process for determination of final criteria selection for a fourth-party logistics solution. The analytic network process is used to solve complex multiple qualitative ...

This paper investigates pricing and ordering decisions in a supply chain comprised of two competing manufacturers, dominant retailer, third-party logistics (3PL) provider. Product distribution functions may be implemented by the 3PL provider manufacturers. The advantages outsourcing lie lower cost professional service, which affect decision-making members. adopts novel approach to outsourcing, ...

Corporation’s own-running logistics are often inefficient, so more and more corporations would like to choose outsource logistics, that is, corporations use the third-party logistics suppliers to provide logistics services. The third-party logistics can simplify the distribution sectors, transport reasonably, use and allocate rationally the existing resources, and avoid the problems of funds us...

The use of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in many fields is based on total flexibility of the weights. However, the problem of allowing total flexibility of the weights is that the values of the weights obtained by solving the unrestricted DEA program are often in contradiction to prior views or additional available information. Also, many applications of DEA assume complete discretionary of d...

An intelligent agent-based framework that supports fourth-party logistics (4PL) operations on the web is proposed in this paper. In our system, customers specify job requests over the web dynamically. An e-Market Place allows intelligent third-party logistics (3PL) agents to bid for customers’ job requests. The intelligence lies on the e-Market Place to optimally decide which agents’ bids shoul...